Comments on: Pakistani government may stop mobile video service

First company to offer the service has been told it can't sell mobile TV service without a specific license.

[ethana2]

The solution is simple:

Put it all online and have a have a phone that simply gives one internet access. Not compatible with your business model? Then I have no pity. Get 'em, Pakistanis!

[bobbydi]

Ethana2: Right!

What you said is the way it started- then the phone company started to make a land based system separate from the mobile system. I think making all on the internet system, in Pakistani,
is the best. They do not have a huge industry to
go against as in other countries.

[jamal_shah]

IP services blur the line

All kinds of content services can be delivered over IP (GPRS/EDGE) and I think the Pakistan government needs to just figure the cost of all such "sublicenses" within the cost of a cellular operator license. The Pakistani Technology website, http://techlahore.wordpress.com makes a good point about how it is impossible to stop services like since the content source can be moved anywhere in the world...